NETWORK LAYER
INTRODUCTION
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Physical Layer
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Data Link Layer
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Network layer
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Application Layer
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Detailed explanation-1: -Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) The Address Resolution Protocol is a layer 2 protocol used to map MAC addresses to IP addresses. All hosts on a network are located by their IP address, but NICs do not have IP addresses, they have MAC addresses.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Layer 3 switch places the information from the ARP response into the ARP cache. ARP requests contain the IP address and MAC address of the sender, so all devices that receive the request learn the MAC address and IP address of the sender and can update their own ARP caches accordingly.
Detailed explanation-3: -Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is a protocol or procedure that connects an ever-changing Internet Protocol (IP) address to a fixed physical machine address, also known as a media access control (MAC) address, in a local-area network (LAN).